Education & Outreach

Field Trips & Outreach

Field Trips

Merryspring provides the perfect setting for outdoor learning. We offer field trips for schools, scouting groups, and other non-profit educational programs free of charge. Merryspring has ample room for bus parking, an indoor classroom space with projector, an outdoor gazebo, and open fields, gardens, and woodland trails.

We work individually with educators to construct programs that best fit their needs, lesson plans, and class sizes.Popular field trip topics include nature walks, identifying trees and wild plants, vernal pools, butterflies, nature art, birding, and trail-and-garden work service learning projects.

Outreach

We can provide classroom science activities for a variety of settings, both indoors and outdoors. Past programs have included winter tracking, bees and pollinators, the water cycle and weather science, bird adaptations, native plants, school nature walks, and nature identification and classification.